article thumbnail

Virtualware Inks Multi-Year VR Trainer Deal with US Energy Firm

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Virtualware , a Spanish virtual reality (VR) firm specialising in enterprise training solutions, has inked a massive multi-million dollar deal with a US energy firm. With its VR training platform, Virtualware will offer its services to the unnamed company to rapidly upskill its workforce for entering their on-side working environments.

article thumbnail

Virtualware Celebrates 20 Years of Operation

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Virtualware is a global leader in providing VR training solutions for industry, education, and healthcare companies. Since its founding in 2004, the firm has been consistently recognized as a worldwide leader in providing enterprise XR. The VR training firm also signed a massive €1.6

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

New VR boots aim to make walking realistic for job training

Hypergrid Business

The company website  states that Ekto VR is bridging the skills gap by simulating full-scale working environments, and their demo video shows some virtual onsite training. One 2004 study from Japan states that the sensation of walking affects the way our brains process distance and movement.

Training 120
article thumbnail

How Are XR Firms Training Sports Athletes and Saving Their Lives?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

News reports have revealed that a new extended reality (XR) tool has now become integral to Germany’s European Under 17 (U17) football training programme, leading to enhanced sports training. Ten players trialling the virtual reality (VR) training module were on the team that earned the championship title.

article thumbnail

Using VR Revolutionize Sports Training with STRIVR Labs

Road to VR

Belch asked Bailenson if it was possible to use VR to train football players, but the technology wasn’t ready yet back in 2004. Fast-forward six years, with Oculus Rift VR development kits readily available, Belch started a master’s thesis project with Bailenson to study how to use VR to train quarterbacks.

Training 115
article thumbnail

8 best thrillers on Prime Video to wreck your nerves

Mashable VR

Bruce Willis stars as a seemingly ordinary security guard whose life of consistently good health is thrown into question when he survives a deadly train crash with nary a scratch or bruise on him. The Manchurian Candidate (2004) Imagine a scenario where one of the top candidates in a U.S. Is Willis's David Dunn really that healthy?

Video 129
article thumbnail

How Watson, IBM’s Artificial Intelligence, Is Powering Audio-Interactive VR/AR Environments

VRScout

So from a personality perspective, if you’re starting to train agents, they will be trying to understand not just what is being said, but how it’s being said,” says Pavitt. Fun Fact: Watson itself was only developed in 2004 as a part of IBMs DeepQA project to compete in Jeopardy, and it eventually appeared on Jeopardy!

AR 415